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Microsoft Azure

The Microsoft Developer Experience team (DX) in the UK is looking forward to coming to DroidCon and chatting with app developers about Microsoft Azure - Microsoft’s cloud platform which is a growing collection of integrated services—compute, storage, data, networking, and app—that help you move faster, do more, and save money.

Azure supports any operating system, language, tool, and framework— from Windows to Linux, SQL Server to Oracle, C# to Java. It puts the best of Windows and Linux ecosystems at your fingertips, so you can build great applications and services that work with every device. Build scalable iOS, Android, and Windows apps. Azure Mobile Services provides a scalable and secure backend that can be used to power apps on any platform–iOS, Android, Windows or Mac. With Mobile Services, it’s easy to store app data in the cloud or on-premises, authenticate users, and send push notifications, as well as add your custom backend logic in C# or Node.js.

In this talk, Lucas will go through different techniques for implementing custom layouts on Android: from the simple composite views to the most complex flat layout views as well custom view recycling layouts.

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